Search results for ""Author Les Parsons""
Pembroke Publishing Ltd Classroom Troubleshooter: Strategies for Dealing with Marking And Paperwork, Discipline, evaluation, and Learning Through Language
In TheClassroom Troubleshooter: Strategies for Dealing with Marking and Paperwork, Discipline, Evaluation, and Learning through Language, author Les Parsons provides practical, no-nonsense solutions to the problems that plague a teacher's day. This handy, easy-to-use guide incorporates a number of invaluable rubrics, checklists, templates, reference sheets, questionnaires, and student guidelines. Included are strategies to help teachers Avoid being overwhelmed by paperwork and other types of "administrivia" Mark "smart" Anticipate, prevent, respond to, and manage a host of discipline problems Develop and administer evaluation instruments for projects, research, essays, and objective-style tests Increase student comprehension of textbooks Implement and mark journal writing Guide talk-based learning Reflect on how individual teachers can impact on the overall functioning of the school The Classroom Troubleshooter empowers teachers to control their environment and to reclaim time and energy so that their gifts and skills can be directed into teaching and learning with their students.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Back to Learning: How Research-Based Classroom Instruction Can Make the Impossible Possible
Based on the most up-to-date research, Back to Learning presents straightforward analysis and practical guidance on confronting bullying, taming the digital universe, and changing the troublesome trend in students' entitled attitudes toward learning and grades. Back to Learning gives teachers the background they need to: understand how the brain learns and incorporate that knowledge into teaching methods, individualize instruction in any learning/teaching situation, acknowledge the bullying crisis in schools and learn how to solve the bullying puzzle, recognize the limits of standardized testing and better prepare students for being tested, and appreciate where the digital revolution might lead and the implications for students' current and future roles.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Bullied Teacher, Bullied Student: How to Recognize the Bullying Culture in Your School and What to Do About It
Students aren't the only ones bullying in schools. Teachers, principals, and parents bully too. Together they create a bullying culture that strikes at the heart of effective learning and teaching. A bullying culture harms everyone it touches—targets, student bystanders, teachers, parents, and even society at large. To eradicate bullying, the school community must first acknowledge its existence in all forms. This timely book explores the background and issues related not just to student-on-student bullying but to all forms of bullying found in schools. It then goes on to illustrate how schools can devise—and enforce—a policy that works. This indispensable guide offers an anti-bullying blueprint that explains how to:recognize a systemic culture of bullying;neutralize the power imbalance that enables bullies;create an environment free of sexual, racial, and cultural stereotyping;use cooperative learning to foster respect for differences;empower students through positive reinforcement; counteract the “blame the victim” mentality.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Grammarama!
Whether or not to teach formal grammar in the classroom is a hot topic. Teachers need help in making sense of the issues. Grammarama! offers a powerful classroom context and practical strategies for helping students cope with all aspects of grammar and language usage. It provides:discussion of the pros and cons of teaching grammar;exercises that involve students using grammar in fun ways;sentence-combining challenges that strengthen student language usage;examples and activities based on professional writing;creative expressions of grammar usage and how to incorporate them in your teaching;up-to-date details on how grammar and language evolves—from particular word usage to changing grammar rules to appropriate terminology for the classroom;a comprehensive glossary that offers capsule definitions of essential terms.All student activities are accompanied by detailed teacher guidelines that provide background, outcomes, ways of introducing the activities, and an answer key. Suggestions for group work and assessment complement this valuable classroom tool.Language is constantly changing. This remarkable resource shows you how students can make powerful connections with language that last a lifetime.
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